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English · Romance · Contemporary
I was stalked by a creep for two straight weeks.
He wore a black trench coat, haunting me like a ghost that refused to disappear.
To protect myself, I set a trap in the underground parking garage, blasted him in the face with…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My best friend had been sleeping with my ex-husband for three years.
Together, they spread anonymous rumors, ruined my reputation, and pushed me to the edge.
That was when Ethan Grant appeared.
He stepped in front of the knife,…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Five years ago, he left me with a single text: “Let’s take some time apart.”
Now he’s back—billion-dollar tycoon, empty-handed, begging me to open the door.
But I’m no longer the girl who waited. I built my own empire.
And this time,…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The night the flower shop closed for good, I signed a contract.
By the end of it, I had a new identity.
Ethan Gray's wife.
He was waiting for me in a wheelchair, deep inside the Gray estate.
Chapter 1
Rain hammered against the roof…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Three years after our "paper" divorce, my six-year-old daughter, Lily, walked for two hours through the cold streets just to find me.
She gently tugged at the edge of my coat.
"Mommy, I’m so hungry."
My heart dropped.
On the way to…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I thought I was marrying for love. Instead, I walked straight into a slaughterhouse, all carefully arranged just for me.
The fiancé I'd loved for three years slipped an organ donation form between the pages of our marriage paperwork and…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Three years into my marriage, my husband's family stole my dad's accident settlement money and used it to buy a luxury mansion.
At the housewarming party, my mother-in-law decided my parents' memorial portraits were "bad luck" and threw…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
In the iron cage of an underground fighting pit, my heat cycle hit without any warning.
Up on the high platform, my so-called fated mate — the uncrowned king of the Night Faction, Maximilian Cross — covered his nose in disgust and…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Everyone thought Susie Summers was a pushover.
She'd been married to Henry Ziegler for three years — working for him at the office by day, serving him in bed by night.
Even when she caught Henry fooling around with Lena Hampert right…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The operating table was ice-cold. A bone-deep chill crept up my spine, inch by inch.
This was the third time I'd lain here.
My husband, Dante Vane, stood on the other side of the sterile room's glass window. His eyes were flat and…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
That afternoon, the company needed us to submit a photo with our emergency contact.
I searched through my entire phone before remembering an absurd fact.
My boyfriend and I had been together for eight years, yet we did not have a…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My parents gave me a bank card and transferred twenty thousand dollars into it every month for living expenses.
Everyone envied me for having such a good family.
But they never told me the PIN.
At school, I could not even afford…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I was drugged unconscious by my adopted brother, Mason Clarke, and dumped on a deserted island six thousand miles away.
When my childhood friend Lily Hayes found me, the fishermen had already tortured me beyond recognition.
She fought…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend, Austin Miller, always called me by his ex-girlfriend's name.
On my birthday, when he handed me a gift, the words slipped out of his mouth:
"Summer, this is your favorite shade of lipstick."
When he accompanied me to the…
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English · Contemporary
I simply refused to babysit my elderly neighbor for free this weekend.
So her son actually carried her—with a broken leg—straight into my office lobby to make a massive scene.
Holding a forged "Volunteer Caregiver Agreement," he wept…
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English · Contemporary
I FaceTimed my fiancé, Isaiah, but a ten-year-old boy answered. He looked exactly like Isaiah.
He stared at me, his eyes instantly turning bloodshot. Then, he let out a heartbreaking cry, "Mom!"
I froze.
I was only one month pregnant…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My oldest brother's rich fiancée — the one in the wheelchair — drank a cup of the calming herbal tea I'd brewed, then died in the guest room with blood seeping from her eyes, nose, and mouth.
The medical examiner found a high…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
"You were born with an extreme sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation. Touch a phone and your skin will peel right off. Your heart will stop."
That's what my mom drilled into my head from the time I was a little girl.
To survive, I…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Late at night, I sat alone in our newly finished wedding suite, facing the antique Western mirror I'd won at auction for a small fortune, trying on the diamond crown I was meant to wear for the wedding tomorrow.
The woman in the mirror…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
After five years of marriage, I ghostwrote twelve bestselling novels for my husband and built his success with my own hands.
At the launch party for his new book, he walked in with a rising celebrity on his arm and announced he'd found…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
After the car accident, my father lost his memory and had been living in a care facility. I visited him every week.
He was in good spirits today, sitting quietly by the window, fiddling with a chess set.
The caretaker smiled and told me…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Everyone said the heir of the Sterling family had found himself a massive headache of an influencer girlfriend who was obsessed with "blind box" gimmicks.
When it came to distributing performance bonuses to the staff, she insisted on…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I spent seventy thousand dollars on an unlimited annual membership at an ultra-luxury wellness spa.
But after only two weeks of going there, the lead therapist publicly humiliated me in front of everyone, calling me a "broke leech"…
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English · Contemporary
On the day the family successor was chosen, I stood there with absolute confidence, holding my straight-A academic transcripts and business certificates.
Instead, Grandma Margaret announced that the successor of the Shea Group would be…
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